According to police in San Jose, California, a man who was wearing what looked like a gas mask and body armor who dropped a package into a post office box, causing fears of an anthrax attack, was just exercising in strange workout gear.Read More »

A St. Louis woman recently pleaded guilty to federal charges that she sent numerous packages to her perceived enemies that contained, among other things, a white powder that investigators believe was meant to simulate the deadly biological toxin anthrax.Read More »

A team of scientists led by Dr. Ulrich Elling of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna has discovered a gene that counteracts the effects of ricin, a deadly poison developed from castor beans.Read More »

Staffers at the WPIX/Channel 11 newsroom in New York City were in lockdown mode on Wednesday afternoon after an envelope that contained a suspicious powder was opened at the assignment desk.Read More »

Janet Napolitano, the director of U.S. Homeland Security, said on Friday that the risk of attackers with no ties to known extremist networks or grand conspiracies, known as lone wolf attackers, is on the rise.Read More »

The Georgia man accused of leading a plot to buy weapons and explosives to target government officials asked a judge to release him on bond because the federal domestic terrorism charges are "overblown."Read More »

A senior U.S. State Department official recently announced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear at an upcoming international conference on biological warfare prevention and preparedness to be held in Geneva.Read More »

Boston University recently received preliminary approval from Massachusetts environmental officials to open a laboratory for biomedical research on substances that are less hazardous than those that sparked opposition to the project.Read More »

The U.S. representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons recently spoke in The Hague, Netherlands, about U.S. participation and the need to increase membership in the Chemical Weapons Convention.Read More »

Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, urged states parties to the international convention on biological weapons on Monday to increase cooperation on the diplomatic use of biological science and technology.Read More »

On Tuesday, the House unanimously passed U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) bipartisan bill to protect the U.S. against pandemics and attacks from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.Read More »

PharmAthene, Inc., recently announced that a major peer-reviewed journal has published data supporting the potential use of Valortim, a fully human monoclonal antibody, as both a post-exposure prophylaxis and a treatment for anthrax infection.Read More »

A victim of the deadly 1994 Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack in Matsumoto, Japan, was recently hired by a spinoff branch of the cult to conduct surveys and hold informational meetings with its members.Read More »

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have used an electron microscope and cryo-electron tomography to produce a three-dimensional image of a virus that infects anthrax bacteria.Read More »